Amyris RUTACE^E 193 



Elemifera foliis ternatis &c. Plum. PL Amer. (Burm.) 87, t. 100. 

 Amyris fruticosus minor &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 209. 



Candle -wood. 



Shane Herb. vii. 21 ! Lane in Herb. Sloane clxii. 223 ! Hills about the 

 Ferry, Browne; Wright \ Masson\ Andersonl Macfadyenl Waters! Ocho 

 Rios, Purdie\ Marchl King's House grounds, J.P. 1113, Hartl Green, 

 Valley ; J.P. 1275, F. Campbell 1 Ferry Pen, 150 ft. ; Rio Cobre, 150 ft. ;. 

 Constant Spring, 600 ft., Campbell ! Robertsfield, 2000 ft. ; near Sheldon ; 

 Green Valley ; Berwick Hill, 2600 ft. ; Watson's Hill, Manchester, 1000 ft, ; 

 Ferry River, 100 ft. ; Ferry Pen, 50 ft. ; Harris I Fl. Jam. 5194, 5284, 5278, 

 5279, 5312, 5789, 5790, 5927, 5990, 6249, 6319, 7714, 8630, 9052.— Hispa- 

 niola, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia. 



Shrub 4-15 ft. high, glabrous. Leaflets roundish-ovate, or even some- 

 what roundish, or ovate, acuminate, acute or rounded at the apex, broadly 

 wedge-shaped or rounded at the base, crenulate, crenate or doubly crenate, 

 membranaceous to papery. Panicle usually terminal. Flowers white. 

 Calyx about -6 mm. 1., with roundish-triangular lobes. Petals elliptical 

 to obovate-elliptical, 2-5-3 mm. 1. 



6. SPATHELIA L. 



Trees with a simple slender unbranched trunk. Leaves 

 alternate, pinnate with an odd leaflet, borne at the summit of 

 the trunk, leaving conspicuous leaf -scars on falling ; leaflets in 

 many pairs, opposite or alternate, with pellucid dots on the 

 margin. Panicles very large, terminal. Flowers polygamous. 

 Calyx 5-cleft ; segments spreading, valvate or subvalvate. 

 Petals 5, imbricate. Stamens 5, free. Ovary 3-angled, 3-celled, 

 sterile in the male flowers ; style very short, deciduous with the 

 3 obovate-roundish fleshy papillose stigmas, rudimentary in male 

 flowers ; ovules one in each cell, pendulous from the inner angle 

 at the apex. Drupe 3-sided, 3-winged (rarely 2-sided, 2-winged, 

 2-celled) ; putamen 3-angled, 3-celled, with resin-canals, cells 

 1-seeded. Seeds with thickish endosperm ; cotyledons linear- 

 oblong. The tree dies after maturing fruit, that is, about six 

 months after flowering. 



In the few female flowers which are available for dissection, 

 we find only one ovule which is pendulous from the inner angle 

 at the apex of each ovary-cell. Bentham and Hooker, who 

 describe the ovules as geminate in each cell, place this genus in 

 Simaruhacese ; Engler places it in Rutacese. 



Mountain Pride. 



Species 5, natives of Jamaica and Cuba — one of the Cuban 

 species is found also in the Bahamas. 



Leaflets velvety beneath. Filaments with hairy wings 1. S. sorbifolia. 

 Leaflets glabrous. Filaments without wings 2. S. glabrescens. 



1. S. sorbifolia L. Amoen. v. 377 (1760); leaflets velvety on 

 both sides, especially on the midrib, sometimes glabrate on the 

 upper surface ; filaments with hirtellous wing- like appendages on 

 IV. 



